CVE-2017-14591 Command injection in Fisheye and Crucible

What is CVE-2017-14591?

CVE-2017-14591 is a critical command injection vulnerability in Atlassian Crucible, published on 29 Nov 2017. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.

Official description

Atlassian Fisheye and Crucible versions less than 4.4.3 and version 4.5.0 are vulnerable to argument injection through filenames in Mercurial repositories, allowing attackers to execute arbitrary code on a system running the impacted software.

Weakness: CWE-88

Which versions are affected by CVE-2017-14591?

It affects 2 products.

Products include Atlassian Crucible, Atlassian Fisheye.

How do I fix CVE-2017-14591?

No fix has been published for CVE-2017-14591 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

Upgrade, and pass arguments to programs as a list instead of through a shell. More about Command injection.

Is CVE-2017-14591 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2017-14591 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Other vulnerabilities in Atlassian Crucible

• CVE-2021-43958 Security feature bypass in Crucible Critical 9.8
• CVE-2017-16861 Code injection in Fisheye and Crucible Critical 9.8
• CVE-2020-4018 Cross-site request forgery in Crucible High 8.8
• CVE-2018-13399 Privilege escalation in Fisheye and Crucible High 7.8
• CVE-2021-43957 Path traversal in Crucible High 7.5

All Atlassian Crucible vulnerabilities

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as GHSA-5w4x-5vvq-236j.